Question

In U.S. v. Robinson (1973), the police had stopped the defendant for driving with a revoked driver's permit. SCOTUS’s ruling with respect to the legality of the search of the defendant is important, because it held that:​

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The rule says literally: "In the case of a lawful custodial arrest the full search of the person is not only an exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment, but it is a reasonable search under the Amendment."

In practice, this means that a search of a person arrested beyond frisking for weapons is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, including circumstances under which there is no reason to believe that the arrestee commited another offense other than the traffic violation. The defendant, Willie Robinson Jr., had been driving with a revoked driver´s license.